Top Engineering Jobs in Edinburgh

Leads and scales a data engineering team of 8+ engineers, owning data strategy, platform modernization, architecture, reliability, and engineering standards. Partners with product, analytics, and commercial teams to deliver scalable, secure, high-quality data solutions. Responsibilities include coaching, mentoring, roadmap ownership, stakeholder management, performance measurement, and representing data engineering with senior leadership. The role requires technical credibility across cloud platforms, data warehouses, orchestration, modeling, pipelines, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD.

Own Perk’s global go-to-market engineering strategy, architecture, tooling, automation roadmap, and commercial outcomes. Build production workflows in Clay, Salesforce, and code; automate prospecting, selling, account management, and AI-assisted processes; establish engineering standards; and lead a senior distributed team. Partner with revenue leaders to translate pipeline and productivity problems into scalable technical solutions with measurable impact.

Build scalable, full-stack, AI-enabled products for BlackRock’s Aladdin investment compliance and analytics workflows. Lead technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement. Apply generative AI, semantic search, retrieval, intelligent assistants, and agentic workflows responsibly. Partner with product, engineering, compliance, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into deliverable solutions. Influence architecture, champion DevOps and SRE practices, mentor engineers, and promote quality, resilience, security, observability, and maintainability across a global organization.

Leads the engineering operations capability across quality engineering, environment management, release readiness, engineering assurance, risk controls, resilience, and continuous improvement. Owns engineering standards and quality frameworks, drives automation and DevSecOps adoption, oversees partner and outsource-provider performance, and uses metrics and risk insights to improve delivery confidence. The role requires senior stakeholder influence and strong engineering leadership within a complex, regulated environment.

Lead and grow a compiler, kernel, and runtime engineering team responsible for accelerator bring-up across the Modular stack. Drive technical direction, architecture, coding, roadmap delivery, vendor partnerships, SOWs, milestones, cross-team dependencies, hiring, and production-quality model deployment across diverse hardware platforms.

Serve as a pre-sales Solutions Engineer for Atlassian’s Emerging Markets team, focusing on enterprise customers in Africa. Partner with sales teams and channel partners to discover business and technical needs, map challenges to Atlassian solutions, identify expansion opportunities, and lead customized value-based demonstrations. Build customer and sales partnerships, guide technical buying decisions, document product feedback and competitive intelligence, and continuously develop product and sales-process expertise.

16-month graduate programme supporting renewable energy projects across wind, solar PV, battery storage and private wire systems. Responsibilities include feasibility studies, design development, technical assessments, problem-solving, documentation review, and project collaboration from development through commissioning. The role includes engineering team rotations, site-based work, possible travel or relocation, and development toward professional chartership.

Leads Tide’s global engineering organization for ongoing monitoring, fraud detection, financial crime, sanctions, and regulatory-risk platforms. Owns engineering strategy, shared decisioning capabilities, ML model lifecycle, agentic AI governance, platform scalability, and measurable risk and efficiency outcomes. The role manages distributed engineering, data science, and analytics teams while aligning risk, compliance, operations, payments, product, and technology stakeholders across multiple markets.

Lead a high-performing engineering team responsible for backend services, APIs, integrations, and operational capabilities. The manager will set technical direction, own customer and business outcomes, guide architecture and reliability, develop engineers, improve execution standards, and collaborate across Product, Design, Data, Operations, and Engineering. The role requires hands-on technical judgment across Python, Go, Ruby, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and production operations, with a focus on customer value, team autonomy, and system quality.

Manage and develop a distributed team of backend and frontend engineers working on observability collection products, including Fleet Management, Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart, and Instrumentation Hub. Partner with product, engineering leadership, and go-to-market teams to deliver customer-focused solutions. Guide projects from ideation through launch, foster psychological safety and continuous improvement, and contribute across team boundaries.

Leads multiple teams delivering scalable, reliable software, data, and AI/ML systems. Oversees architecture, development, DevOps, deployment, monitoring, cloud cost optimization, and operational efficiency. Translates strategy into technology roadmaps, manages cross-functional dependencies, and ensures execution against business priorities. Builds high-performing engineering teams through mentorship, succession planning, and continuous improvement while advancing AI platforms and intelligent automation.

Leads the transformation of an L2 support organization into an engineering-led SRE function. Defines reliability standards for observability, SLOs, SLAs, incident management, alerting, and production readiness. Drives AI-assisted automation, self-service, toil reduction, and operational excellence while partnering with engineering and product teams to improve system reliability. Builds and develops a high-performing SRE organization, establishes operational KPIs, and advances platform resilience, scalability, and customer experience.

Lead and scale the engineering organization for a regulated digital-asset custody platform. Own hiring, org design, engineering operations (on-call, incidents, release hygiene), delivery against roadmaps, audit and regulator readiness (SOC 2, SAMA, ISO 27001), and cross-functional alignment. Amplify an existing small, specialized team to meet regulatory and institutional requirements while preserving culture and retention.

Own end-to-end engineering recruitment across AI, backend, frontend, full-stack, data, and infrastructure roles. Develop hiring strategies with founders and engineering leaders, build proactive sourcing pipelines, assess technical fundamentals, manage recruitment agencies, analyze talent markets, maintain ATS accuracy, and deliver a strong candidate experience in a fast-scaling startup.

Lead and grow a distributed engineering organization building customer-facing security capabilities: proprietary scanners, AI/ML detection engines, agentic remediation, vulnerability management, and security foundations. Set vision and roadmap, drive architecture and delivery, partner with product management, establish engineering standards, and represent the group in cross-functional and customer forums.

Lead and mentor a cross-functional engineering team building growth-critical platforms, AI-driven tools, automations, and user engagement systems. Partner with Product and Design to prioritize work, guide architecture, improve processes, and deliver reliable production features. The role combines people leadership with hands-on backend software development, technical decision-making, stakeholder communication, and team enablement across distributed time zones.

Lead two distributed frontend engineering squads responsible for Grafana’s frontend platform and navigation. Manage performance, hiring, team planning, coaching, delivery, technical direction, and cross-functional prioritization. Shape architecture, developer experience, accessibility, search, navigation, reliability, and multitenant capabilities. Engage customers and open-source contributors, improve engineering workflows through AI and automation, oversee operational standards, and participate in the engineering management on-call rotation.

Lead the AI function, define roadmap, and build production generative AI systems (voice, chat, document). Split time between hands-on engineering (~40%) and leading the AI team, establishing RAG/agentic workflows, evaluation, observability, and best practices. Collaborate with product and engineering to deliver reliable, user-focused AI features.

The Staff Engineer leads analog and mixed-signal block design, conducts design reviews, mentors junior engineers, and develops methodologies for advanced technology applications.

Lead GitLab’s Security Posture Management team within Product Security. Drive governed security capability rollouts across the software estate, establish secure configuration baselines, build software supply chain security, manage risk registers and posture metrics, support audit evidence, and provide customer-zero feedback to Product and Engineering. Hire, coach, and develop the team while representing GitLab’s security practices externally and driving measurable risk reduction in a remote, asynchronous environment.

Lead GitLab’s Build team and roadmap, overseeing systems that convert source code into secure, verified, distributable artifacts. Own build platforms, dependency management, CI templates, supply-chain security, build consistency, observability, and self-service onboarding across delivery targets including Omnibus and CNG. Partner across teams to improve reliability, reduce coordination overhead, and support four-nines service objectives. Manage a distributed, high-performing engineering team and guide architecture, technical strategy, operational excellence, and complex project delivery.

Oversee engineering operations and bus maintenance at a London garage, ensuring vehicle reliability, safety, compliance, and TfL standards. Diagnose complex mechanical and electrical issues, lead engineers and technicians, manage stock and budgets, and support emerging technologies including hybrid and electric vehicles. The role requires engineering leadership, strong bus-maintenance expertise, health and safety knowledge, and relevant transport and professional qualifications.

Zepz invites technology and engineering professionals to join its talent community for future opportunities. The company seeks mission-driven, adaptable builders who enjoy problem-solving, learning, ownership, transparent communication, and working in a fast-paced, remote-first environment supporting global financial access.

The Engineering Manager will lead a team to deliver high-quality software, balancing delivery and operational excellence while fostering team growth and adopting AI-native workflows.

Provides process engineering and process safety expertise for regional capital projects across manufacturing sites. Responsibilities include process design, engineering calculations, equipment specification, risk assessments, technical bid evaluations, commissioning, start-up, troubleshooting, and process improvements. The role collaborates with manufacturing, EHS, R&D, Quality, Procurement, contractors, and suppliers while mentoring engineers and ensuring compliance with engineering, environmental, health, safety, and process safety requirements.